{"id":11008,"date":"2016-04-06T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11008"},"modified":"2016-04-06T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:03:44","slug":"mike-adamle-on-personal-leave-from-nbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/04\/06\/mike-adamle-on-personal-leave-from-nbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Adamle \u2018on personal leave\u2019 from NBC 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mike<\/a>

<\/a> Mike Adamle<\/p><\/div>\n

For the second time in four years, veteran Chicago sportscaster Mike Adamle is out of commission at WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a>\u00a0with no word on when he'll back.<\/p>\n

Adamle, 66, has been off the air since March 13 when he anchored his last \u201cSports Sunday\u201d broadcast for the NBC-owned station.<\/p>\n

An NBC 5 spokesman would say only that Adamle was \u201con personal leave\u201d and was expected to return soon. Adamle could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

The former football star-turned-sportscaster has a history of epileptic seizures<\/a>\u00a0related to his time as an All-American running back for Northwestern and his six years as a player in the NFL, including the Chicago Bears. It is believed his absence is connected to those issues.<\/p>\n

In 2012 Adamle was out for two months with no explanation from NBC 5 other than that he was \u201ctaking some personal time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1986 \u2014 days before the Bears played in Super Bowl XX \u2014 Adamle walked out on his WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>colleagues and didn\u2019t return for three months. \u201cI\u2019m not embarrassed to admit I got psychiatric help,\u201d he said on his return to the ABC-owned station.<\/p>\n

Since he retired from the NFL, Adamle has spent nearly four decades in television, including two stints at NBC 5 (the most recent since 2004). In addition to working for ABC 7 and CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, <\/a>he also reported for NBC Sports, ABC Sports and ESPN, and hosted World Wrestling Entertainment and the syndicated \u201cAmerican Gladiators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second time in four years, veteran Chicago sportscaster Mike Adamle is out of commission at WMAQ-Channel 5\u00a0with no word on when he'll back. Adamle, 66, has been off the air since March 13 when he anchored his last \u201cSports Sunday\u201d broadcast for the NBC-owned station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11008"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}